US President Donald Trump signed an executive order, according to which he created a voluntary framework that allows artificial intelligence developers to share their advanced models with the government before launching them, according to what was published by Agence France-Presse.
The decision allows companies such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to give the government access to their most powerful models thirty days before their launch date.
The decision came against the backdrop of concerns related to the “Mythos” model, which was developed by Anthropic, which refrained from offering it to the public due to its ability to reveal vulnerabilities in computer systems, including banking, government, and hospital systems.
The 30-day time frame represents a compromise; The initial leaked version of the decision proposed a period of up to 90 days of prior government review, while technology companies lobbied to reduce it to only 14 days.
According to media reports, Silicon Valley investor David Sachs, who serves as the official in charge of artificial intelligence and digital currencies in the Trump administration, contacted the president, warning him that the measure might slow innovation and harm the competitiveness of the United States in the artificial intelligence race with China. This surprised some White House officials who thought he supported the decision.
“Unnecessary regulation is the biggest threat to innovation in America,” Sachs wrote on the X platform last week, adding that winning the artificial intelligence race requires removing “bureaucratic obstacles.”
The executive order also mandates the Department of the Treasury, the National Security Agency, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency to establish a “Coordinating Center for Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity,” in voluntary cooperation with companies and operators of critical infrastructure, to coordinate efforts to detect software vulnerabilities and accelerate their remediation.
On his first day after returning to the White House, Trump had canceled a previous order issued by his predecessor, Joe Biden, to regulate oversight of artificial intelligence.
